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1 Scene In the grent Uusslun fortress of Kronstudt, whose gtirrlson revolted but Inter yielded to the provlslonul
jTOvernment. 2 Kleanor I'nrker of Hnrnurd college nnd Chnrles V. l'hllllps mid Owen Cuttell of Columbia university,
who were urrestcd In New York for conspiring against the drnft; l'hllllps pleaded guilty and asked permission to
register. 3 Brig. Gen. It. K. L. Mlchle, aid to General Scott in the Hoot mission now In IttiHsIn; the low-collared uni
form he hns on Is now disapproved by the war department. -1 One of the battering rams used by the Germans to
destroy without explosives the cottuges In the French territory from which they are being driven by the allies.
NEWS REVIEW OF
THE PAST WEEK
lllore Than Ten Million Young
Americans Register for
National Army.
PERSHING REACHES ENGLAND
British Start Tremendous Offensive In
Belgium, First Blowing Up Messlnes
Ridge Japan Warns Russia
Against Withdrawing From the
War Food Scarcity Wor
ries Germany.
' By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
More than 10,000,000 men between
the ages of twenty-one and thirty
ycurs responded to Uie call of tho na
tion on Tuesday, June G, registration
day for the natlonul army. Thus the
first step in tho execution of the se
lective service law was completed with
gratifying success und the predictions
of the Germans and of the traitors In
America who side with them that the
registration would be a failure were
proved false.
That there would be opposition to
the registration wus a foregone con
clusion, hut It wub sporadic nnd on
tho whole was of no Importance. Such
hostile demonstrations as there were
generally took place In strongholds of
tho I. W. W. nnd the Socialists nnd
were promptly squelched.
Returns from some states were be
low the estimates of the census bu
reau, but In other states those esti
mates were exceeded. A lurge pro
portion of those registering claimed
exemption, usually because of depend
ent relatives, and thowar department
officials, ns n result, Intimated that the
rules governing exemption would be
tightened.
Tho considerable number of claims
for exemption really does not mean
that so many young Americans desire
to avoid service. Such n conclusion
would be most unjust, for everywhere
there were evidences of unbounded pa
triotism and loyalty, and tho Indica
tions of exemption claims arose mainly
from the necessary answers to ques
tions that were merely statistical.
Ah soon ns tho machinery of regis
tration Is readjusted, 1,500,000 names
will bo drafted, the exemption boards
will do their work and 025,000 men
will be called for Immediate service.
, Pershing Arrives in England.
Tho safe arrival of General Per
shing and his staff at an English port
fwas announced on Friday.
Tho navnl collier Jupiter, laden with
grain and other supplies for tho Per
shing army and escorted by American
warships, arrived at a French port;
a squadron or our warsnips arnveu
at Rio do Janeiro, Brazil, presumably
jto relieve the British navy of tho pa
trol of tho South Atlantic; and moro
(hospital units landed In England nnd
proceeded to France. So much tho
government allowed to bo known of
(the movements of our armed forces.
Military expediency demanded tho sup
Wcsslon of much moro Interesting
1Q0WS.
, Preparations have been mndo for tho
reception of American troops In
France. A number of bases have been
organized, camps for Infuntry nnd nr
tlllory have been laid out, and aviation
parks established.
I From Franco came tho news of tho
exploit of the American steamship
SllvershcU which encountered an cue
my submarine la tho Mediterranean.
.The two vessels fought for an hour
and n half, exchanging many shots,
and then one shell fired by tho naval
gunners on the SllvershcU found Us
mark and tho U-boat was sent to tho
bottom.
British Offensive In Flanders.
After a smashing bombardment last
ing three days, tho British began their
expected offensive In Flanders early
Thursday morning with an explosion
Jhat was heard by Premier Llpyd
'Gcorgo at Walton Heatfi, 140 miles
jaway. Nine miles of German positions
(Along tho Yprcs-Armcntlcrcs front
were blown Into the nlr by 20 charges
of high explosives, totaling n million
pounds. Instantly the Englishmen,
Irishmen, Australians and New Zoa
landers that make up the British army
In Belgium sprang forward In succes
sive waves, und one of the fiercest
battles of the war was on.
Tho attack was directed at the Mes
slnes ridge, between Messlnes and
Wytschaete, where ever since October
of 1014 the Germans had maintained
themselves in a shurp salient that al
ways threatened Yprcs, only threo
miles to the north. The morning rush
resulted In the capture of Messlnes
nnd Wytschnete nnd the enemy's de
fense systems on the nine-mile front,
nnd later In the day another forward
movement took the British Into and
through the village of Oosttaverne.
The entire salient was straightened out
and all the counter-attacks were re
pulsed. Any considerable further ad
vnnce In this sector will threaten the
Germnn hold on Lille, which Is about
five miles from the nearest British po
sition. Large numbers of prisoners
already have been taken.
The Germans must have known that
the attack of Messlnes ridge was In
tended, for the preparatory bombard
ment was terrific, and yet reports from
prisoners Indicated that they actually
were taken by surprise.
In preparation for the operations In
Flunders the British fleet co-operated
with the land forces, subjecting Oh
tend to severe bombardment. Tho
British nlr forces ulso were In nctlon(
repeatedly raiding the German bases
at Zcebrugge, Ostend und Bruges. In
retaliation a squadron of German nlr
planes attacked the British navnl base
In the Mcdway, close to London, on
Tuesday, but was driven off with the
loss of eight machines.
SovernI times during tho week tho
Germans made vicious attacks In tho
Alsno and Champagne sectors and
even gained possession of some French
positions; but tho gallant pollus al
most Immediately recovered tho lost
ground, Inflicting severe losses on tho
enemy.
The Austrlnns claimed to have ef
fectually checked the Italian advance
townrd Trieste, nnd announced that
tho Italian losses In the offensive were
180,000 men. On Tuesdny the Itnllans
wero forced bnck south of Jamlano.
Dispatches from Rome revealed tho
fact that Italy had proclaimed the In
dependence of Albania.
Once more the British admiralty Is
sued a very satisfactory report on
the work of the submarines, showing
but 23 British vessels sunk In tho
week, five of which were fishing ves
sels. The American destroyers com
pleted their first month In tho war
and have proved themselves most vulu
nble ulds to tho British naval forces.
Russia Is Warned.
Conditions In Russia remain chaotic,
though they may be straightened out
somewhat by the work of the Root
commission nnd the American railway
engineers. The revolt of the garrison
of Kronstadt, which declured tho Is
land fortress Independent of the gov
ernment, caused considerable concern
In Petrogrnd, Uut as tho action of tho
garrison wbb denounced by the Petro
grnd council of workmen's nnd sol
diers' delegates it collapsed, nnd tho
garrison bowed to the authority of
tho provisional government.
Following President Wilson's exam
ple, France replied to Russia's state
ment of her peace plan by setting
forth in a general way the demands of
tho French. These, embodied in a
voto of tho chamber of deputies, In
clude tho liberation of tho territories
Invaded by Germany, tho return to
Franco of Alsnce-Lorrnlno and Just
reparation for damage.
Japan also took official cognizance
last week of tho Russian crisis, In
forming tho government ut Petrograd
thnt If Russia withdraws from tho war
Japan, In consultation with Englnnd
and the United Stutcs, will consider
what measures to adopt. Tho pro
visional government was warned thnt
If Russia accepts n eepurato peace It
will becomo another Austria under tho
domination of Germany, will loso Po
land, Lithuania and Finland and will
bo stripped of many of her outlying
possessions. Furthermore, Japan In
formed Oreiyt $rjfaln that while, lq
caso of Russja's wltjtdrajyal from tjjo
entente, Japan would prefer to send
her troops to Franco rather than "to
undcrtako mUUfirjr chastbieo
Itary chastisement at
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Russia, If tho new situation seemed
to threaten Japan the latter would
take measures for self-protection. This
means she would declare war on Rus
sia and take away Manchuria and pos
sibly, outer Mongolia.
The best Informed opinion Is that
the entente allies have little to hope
from Russia In the way of further ac
tive participation In the war. If she
cuu be persuaded to reject a separate
peace and to hold the Germans back
from further Invasion, that Is about
the limit of reasonable expectation.
The provisional government seems ut
terly Incklng In cohesion und Its power
Is negligible.
The strlko of munition workers In
Petrograd was averted on Wednesday,
but only by gruutlng the demands of
the men, Including tho six-hour day.
General Brusslloff wus made com
mander In chief of the Russian armies,
und General Gurko again resigned u
commander on the western front.
Two Things Worry Germany.
Two things ore causing especlnl
anxiety In Germany. One Is the per
sistent demand of the masses in Austria-Hungary
for a peace on tho
Schcldemnun plan of no annexations
and no Indemnities a separate peace
If Germany 'remains obdurate. The
German Socialists are uroused to an
ger by the prospect of this breaking
up of tho alliance of the central pow
ers, and lay all the blame on the pan
Germans. The otlier cause for German worry
Is tho scarcity of food, which admit
tedly Is Increasing throughout tho em
pire. Food Controller von Batockl
told the relchstag thnt the potato crop
Is smaller than was expected, and that
tho crops In the occupied territories
aro u great disappointment, as seed
will hardly germluato In ruined soil.
In Turkey, Bulgaria and Austria, ho
admitted, the food sltuutlon was des
perate. Tho cities and towns over
thero are suffering far moro than tho
country districts, for tho peasants re
tain much of the meats and other food
stuffs they produce, desplto tho ef
forts of tho officials to force them to
disgorge. In some parts of Germany
tho townspeople have been conducting
regular expeditions Into tho country to
seize food, by armed force If neces
sary. The war and the question of China's
participation therein nro causing a
lot of trouble for tho rulers of that so
called republic. Tho situation Is con
fusing to occidentals, but the concreto
results have Included tho revolt of 11
provinces, which formed n provisional
government, and tho resignation of tho
vice president.
Germany undertook to appease
Spain by apologizing for the sinking of
a Spanish vessel nnd offering to pay
damages, but the Spaniards are still
angry nnd the food situation there Is
bad. King Alfonso last week mado a
demand on the central powers that tho
abuso of Jews In Palestine bo stopped,
and In this wus backed up by tho Ar
gentine republic.
Northcllffe Comes to America.
An Interesting development of tho
week was tho acceptance by Lord
Northcllffe of tho position of head of
the British war commission In tho
United States in succession to Arthur
J. Balfour. The great editor and pub
lisher Is, next to Lloyd-George, tho
most Influential man In Great Britain
nnd It Is predicted that his work in
America will bo momentous.
A neat exnmplo of German methods
of oppression is supplied by tho treat
ment of Mons. Thnt Belgian town
was fined $100,000 last week becauso
a Belgian paper, printed In Holland,
announced thnt Crown Prlnco Ru
precht of Bavaria was In Mons when
that city was bombarded by allied ulr
men nlso, probably, becauso tho Ger
mans needed tho money.
TJto financo committee of the sennto
put In another strenuous week rovnmp
lng tho wnr revejiuo bill, nnd finally
got It In shapo for consideration by
tho senate.
Tho campaign for tho sale of Lib
erty bonds Is still being carried on
with vigor and the greatest success
throughout tho country. Why It should
bo necessary to urgo pcoplo to put
their money Into these absolutely safo
and very dcslrabjo securities Is not
ciyuty understandable, but since It Is,
ho men who hqvo thp work In charge
nro to bo highly commended for the,
fWU, persistency and Ingenuity with
wmcu
i thoy urp puqhjgg tho conjpalgjy
BROKE GEiAN LINE
Dotails of Important Allied Vic
tory Before Yprcs.
OLD SCORE IS WIPED OUT
Capture of Messlnes Ridges Peculiarly
Gratifying, sb It Was the Sceno
of Former British Defeat
Defenses Shattered.
Willi tho British Armies In Franco,
June 7. In one of the most elaborately
planned and daringly executed ma
neuvers of tho war Sir Douglas Hnlg's
forces havo dealt a mighty blow
against the German lino In Belgium,
nnd been rewarded with notable gains
In terrain and tho capture of more
than ,000 prisoners and numerous
guns of various caliber. In addition
they Indicted heavy casualties on tho
Germans.
The Germans, though nppnrently
nware that the blow was coming nnd
seemingly prepared to meet It, were
driven from their nearly three years'
hold on Messlnes ridge, opposite "poor
old" Ypres. YpreH In u senso was
avenged today, for Messlnes ridge has
been the vantage point from which the
Germans have poured torrents of shells
Into the stricken city. The Brlllsh also
wiped off an old score against tho Ger
innns, for they held the ridge In Octo
ber, 11)11, nnd with very thin forces,
and virtually no artillery, fought blood
ily but vainly to hold It when the Prus
sian troops massed their modern nnd
overpowering weapons of war against
It.
Prisoners taken declared that tho
bombardment of VImy ridge wns
child's play compnred with tho gunfire
turned upon Messlnes rldce.
Triumph for Artillery.
This fire renched Its climax JiiBt
ns dnwn wns graying tho eastern skies
and while the full moon was still sus
pended high In tho heavens.
The attack was nccompnnled by all
the nrts and deviltries of lattor-dny
war. The enemy guns nnd gun crews
had been bathed for dnys In gns shells
Rent over by tho long-rnngo British
guns.
The night was filled with red In
cendlnry flames. Shells that spurted
lead In streams crashed In appalling
numbers nbout tho heads of tho de
fending soldiers. Hlgh-explostvo and
Bhrapnol fire was carried out with such
rapidity that tho earth wrlthod under
tho forco of tho attack.
Mines that had taken two years to
dig and fill with nn overwhelming ex
plosive broko Into an avnlanche of
flaming destruction In tho half light of
dawn. This was Indeed an Ypres day
of retaliation nnd victory for tho
vicious sufferings of two yenrs and
eight months.
Gunners 8trlp to Waist.
It was a day of Intenso boat, nnd tho
gunners worked stripped to tho waist.
Tho attack went forwnrd with clock
Uko regularity.
Tho British casualties wcro slight.
Three out of four of tho casualties
wero reported to bo walking cases, who
would return to duty in a fow dnys.
Tho attack began at dawn, nnd tho
setting wns as picturesque ns can well
bo Imaginable. Tho day beforo had
been hot nnd sultry. Toward evening
thero wns a series of thunder storms
which extended well Into tho night, tho
lightning mingling with the flashes of
tho guns, but tho thunder being virtu
ally unnoticed amid tho din of tho can
non. A full moon strugglod continu
ously to break through tho heavy
ciouus which scuuucu across tno vel
vety night sky.
Sing on Way to Fight
On tho way to tho front wero nil tho
familiar pictures of tho war endless
trains of motor trucks; all varieties
of horso transport, tho British sol
diers marching to battlo light of heart
and singing songs familiar In every
American community.
In tho shadow of an old windmill
which has withstood tho storms of a
century and been undaunted by nearly
three years of war, tho correspondent
witnessed tho last phnses of tho seven
day preliminary bombardment nnd tho
final outburst of tho guns which sont
tho British Infuntry confidently on
their way to now successes In fighting
tho greatest military nation tho world
has over known.
From the Germnn line tho same
lazy, looping rocket signals wero as
cending to Illuminate the treacherous
bit of ground between tho trenches
known ns No Man's Land. This night
ly "straffing" had been going on so
long thnt tho enemy considered It en
tirely normnl nnd took no alarm. Oc
casionally bluo nnd yellow rockets
would bo flung Into the nlr by Germans
holding tho front line.
One by ono tho guns beenmo silent.
Thero was the old "grandmother"
howitzer of enormous caliber, which
kept breaking tho pcaco at flvc-mln-uto
Intervals, tho shock of ench suc
ceeding explosion und tho shriek of
tho heavy shells being emphasized by
tho fillenco which lay over nil tho sur
rounding country.
Like Volcanoes In Eruption.
Day was scarcely breaking when
from tho dimly vlslblo rldgo a scoro
of fiery volcanoes seemed suddenly to
spring from tho earth. Tho night had
been filled with strango noises and still
stranger sights, but theso musses of
flnmo, leaping from tho ground, had n
meaning all their own. Thoy wero tho
spectacular outward and vlslblo evi
dences of moro than a million pounds
of high explosives which had been
burled deep In mines below tho ene
my's positions for months.
All tho world appeared lurid and
.
n. . - -w '
horrible under the sinister glow. Tho
earth shook as If torn by a great seis
mic disturbance. It was not a slnglu
shock. The force of the explosion
actually set the earth rocking to and
fro, and under tho Influence of tho
giant guns, which Immediately began
to roar from far nnd near, the trem
bling continued Indefinitely. It was
8:10 o'clock when this final terrific
bombardment began.
It has seemed that the battle of tho
Sommo attained tho ultimate In tho
close assembly of wnr weapons, but
this sudden outpouring on Messlnes
ridge was beyond nil calculation. Tho
lighter field guns far forwnrd set up a
perfect curtain fire, under which the
assaulting troops trudged confidently
to their allotted goals. Farther back
the deep-throated heavies began to
pour out torrents of high explosive
shells on tho German trenches nud
communications, while still other guns
enough to win nny ordinary battle
confined themselves solely to the task
of deluging German guns nnd gunners
In baths of gas fired In shells of ev
ery conceivable caliber.
The effect of this counter battery
work was not appreciated until later
in the day, when the Infantry sent
back word that their progress had
not been hampered by the enemy nr
tlllery nnd that their casualties
amounted to virtually nothing.
Enemy Signals for Help.
Great black observation balloons
had stolen skyward during the din of
tho newly begun battle. In the wood
bnck of tho windmill spring birds,
awakened by the deafening clamor,
had begun to sing Joyously. Like so
many children who have come Into tho
consciousness of being In the midst of
tho war, theso birds regarded tho ap
palling noise of the battlo ns n normal
condition of Ufo.
The smoke of tho glnnt mines ex
ploded along tho bnttlo front mean
time roso In great, curling phimos to
wnrd the sky and wns punctuated by
red signals for help from tho stricken
Germnns In the front and support
lines. -Never wns tho nlr filled with
moro frantic notices of danger. Tho
cntlro horizon glowed with red bnllH
of flro sent up by tho nervous Ger
mans. Moro and more British nlrplnncs be
gan to mnke their nppenrnnce. Ono
(lew over the lines, the finshos of tho
guns being reflected brilliantly on lta
highly glnzed wings.
Under this nppalllng flro trudged for
ward on tho ten-mllo front Genornl
Plumer'a army. At many places tho
men found German troops utterly
dazed by tho mlno explosion and tho
ordeal of tho nrtlllcry flro.
First Taste of New Warfare.
Many of theso troops hnd but recent
ly como from Russia, whero they had
spont 18 months nnd know nothing ot
what actual warfaro was ltko on tho
western front. Thoy had bolted at tho
first mine explosion and had only beon
gathered together In groups by their
noncommissioned officers when tho
British appeared out of tho smoke and
shells nnd mndo them prisoner.
Thoy said thoy had been given to
understand by their officers that tho
British always killed their prisoners.
It wns really pitiful in somo Instances
to see tho manner In which these pris
oners cringed to their captors.
As a matter of fact, tho British sol
dlor, when tho fighting Is dono, Is In
clined almost too strongly to treat tho
German prisoners as pals. Somo of;
tho prisoners taken today had only
gono Into tho German lines last night
and hnd mado their way forward un
der a galling flro nnd had lost heavily.
But tho troops already lu tho lino were
calling for relief In such a manner thnt
their appeals could not bo denied.
Failed to Time Attack.
Iu view of the fact that the attack
had been expected tho German com
manders wero endeavoring to get tholi
best units actually Into tho flghtlnj
front, but had underestimated whet
tho British would strike. Tho troopj
in a strango lino wero utterly bewll
dored when tho attack began nnd fell
easy prey to tho advancing British..
Tho Irish. New Zcalandcrs and Aus
tralians, who had been rehearsed In
every detail of "the show," know Just
what to do from tho moment tho word
to ndvanco wns given.
Tho battlo waft far more vlslblo dur
ing tho first uncertain moments than
later when tho sun gradually burned
Its way through tho eastern banks of
clouds. By that tlmo tho smoko of ex
ploding shells and tho vapors from tho
blinding barrago, which had been part
of tho artillery duty, obscured tho more
distant landscape to such an extent
that the roaring guns could not bo seen
ut all, although tho firing was almost
at ono'a feet. Tho brilliantly leaping
8hrapnol shells, breaking far above
ground, appeared through a thick mist
only ns brief and brilliant electric
sparks.
British Planes Rule Air.
For a month past, but especially
since Juno 1, tho airplanes on this
front have been Indefatlgably at work
during every posslblo flying hour.
They hud brought down nearly 50 ma
chines In six days as a moans of blind
ing tho enemy. Lately tho Germans
havo endeavored valiantly to obtain
alrplano observations for their artil
lery, but their observing machines
hnvo seldom been nblo to direct more
than ono or two shots beforo tho Brit
ish fighting scouts had pounced upon
them nnd cither sent them crashing to
the earth or had driven them to cover
at breakneck speed.
Today tho British planes flow fa
and long over tho enemy's retreating
lines and wcro only challenged by
somo vory bad-shooting nntl-nlrcraft
batteries. All through tho day British
planes ruled tho air. Thoy co-operated
actively with tho British artillery ana
Infantry In maintaining the success oi
this brilliant optsodo In modern wnr
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cura Soap and hot water. Continue
this treatment for ten days and note
tho change In your skin. No better
toilet preparations exist
Free sample each by mall with Book.
Address postcard, Cutlcura, Dept h,
Boston. Sold everywhere. Adr.
Supper Would Wait.
I was returning homo tho other eve
ning nbout 0:80 o'clock when I saw
Tommy, ray neighbors boy, "lagging
for lino" with pennies with a crowd
of other boyn. I know that his family
nlwnys had supper nt six o'clock sharp,
so I snld, "I'll bet you flvo cents you'll
miss your supper, Tommy."
Ho grinned up nt mo Bauclly and
replied: "Then you loso your bet
cause I got tho chops right hero with
inc. Mn sent mo for 'em at five
o'clock." Everybody's Magazine
He Put It Back.
Tho decorator and his apprentlco
wero llnie-washlng tho bnkery.
They wero ubout half way through
their task when tho muster decorator
enmo to look round.
Tho apprentice wns splashing the
lhno wnsh nbout. Tho mnster, hot
relishing this waste, said: "Mind your
eyes, hid."
The lnd snld: "It Is all right, sir, I
hnvo Just hnd ono eye full, but I didn't
wnsto It. I put It back In tho bucket."
No matter how much wo may love
our neighbors, wo can seo no good rea
son why they should havo a kindly
feeling for us.
When Your Eyes Need Care
Try Murine Eye Remedy
So Brosrtlns Jttst Hf Comfort. (0 esnta at
rnfglsta or mail. Writ for fraa ; Boot.
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